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Communicator Monthly Newsletter for patrons of RC Technologies February 2021 Vol.19 No.2 This Issue: • Ice Storm of 2005 • Update New Home Office • 2021 Directory Winner • discovery+ • Scholarships Update On The New Home Office The further we get into the 2021, the more progress is Dates to Remember luv my being made on RC Technologies new home office. Feb 14 - Valentine's Day Wi-Fi The big move of major equipment ("the brains") from one Feb 15 - President's Day - RC offices closed location to the new headquarters is complete. Now the March 1 - Youth Spring Coloring Contest begins smaller moves of equipment for the wireless have been March 5 - FRS Scholarship deadline and will continue to take place. March 14 - Daylight Saving begins Each move requires March 15 - Youth Coloring Contest ends special planning and overnight March 17 - St. Patrick's Day coordination of teams. The work that's done is generally March 31 - RC Scholarship deadline during the early morning hours "Maintenance Window" for the least amount of impact to customers. Offices are starting to take shape. Once completed, we will be STREAM WHAT YOU LOVE packing and moving office furniture and other equipment. Discovery Network just launched their new app world-wide last month, discovery+. We will be excited to share this space with patrons upon completion of the move by Spring/Summer 2021. Internet Only customers who had cut the "traditional TV" cord to stream and who may be missing their favorite Discovery shows, can find HGTV, Food Network, TLC, ID, Animal Planet and Discovery and more, here. discovery+ also offers their own exclusive and original shows on those channels. Find Home- Town's Ben Napier with his very-own new show, Ben's Workshop and Magnolia Table with You’ll be ready, Joanna Gaines on Magnolia Network. If you are new to streaming and would like to for whatever "try-before-you-buy," discovery+ has a 7-Day Free Trial. Verizon customers with select life throws at you. Unlimited plans may be eligible for 6 to 12 View a list of all your connected devices (phones, printers, months on Verizon. Then, $6.99/mo. Terms security cameras, etc.) on your network and customize apply. Contact Verizon. user profiles to fit your household needs. Find the discovery+ app at your Download the FREE CommandIQ from your favorite app store! your favorite app store & set up today! Find support online: tnics.com > Brochures and Guides > CommandIQ Quick Start A LOOK BACK... The ICE STORM of 2005 Some storms you just don't forget. The Ice Storm of 2005 was one of those storms. If you are new to the area, ask anyone from the area, they'll have a story. It was Thanksgiving weekend of 2005, when storm rolled in. It delivered very high winds and below-zero windchill creating heavy ice downing an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 powerlines and leaving 50 communities and approximately 50,000 people without lights and some without power for four days, in some remote rural areas it was about a week. A large chuck of ice topple from RC's tower in rural Sisseton tearing the roof of the CO and damaging lights and equipment. Governor, state officials and FEMA assessed the area impacted by the store which ended up being over $1 Million in damage. A few hundred of utility workers from South Dakota, Minnesota, Photos by: and other states came to assist in the repair. RC TECHNOLOGIES This storm was one of many reasons for the push to get utilities of all kind to be put underground today. Sources: https://www.weather.gov/abr/This_Day_in_Weather_History_Nov_28 and https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/1516986-going-underground-miles- line-have-been-buried-ice-storm-som-say-its-not-enough And the Winner of RC Technologies Statement of 2021 Directory Photo Cover Contest is... Nondiscrimination RC Technologies is the recipient of federal financial assistance from the Rural Utilities Connie Brandenburger Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of New Effington! of Agriculture. The U.S. Department of Connie will receive a $50 credit on Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination her bill and greeting cards of her photo in all its programs and activities on the basis for being selected as winner. of race, color, national origin, age, disability, and where applicable, sex, marital status, 2021 Directories will be distributed familial status, parental status, religion, mid/end February. Thank you to all sexual orientation, genetic information, political the RC patrons who submitted beliefs, reprisal, or because all or a part photos into this year's Directory of an individual’s income is derived Photo Cover contest. from any public assistance program. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) RC Technologies Scholarship Persons with disabilities who require Now Open | Application Deadline: March 31, 2021 alternative means for communication of The scholarships awarded by RC Technologies program information (Braille, large print, are two $500 scholarships individually given to audiotape, etc.) should contact USDA’s two graduating high school seniors from RC TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice service areas. and TDD). FRS Scholarship The person responsible for coordinating these organizations’ nondiscrimination Opened January 1st | Application Deadline: March 5, 2021 compliance efforts is Scott Bostrom, Foundation for Rural Services annually awards scholarships to General Manager. To file a complaint of an exceptional group of rural students for their first year of college discrimination write to: USDA, Director, or vocational school. All applicants require a sponorship by an Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence NTCA—The Rural Broadband Association member company to be Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 eligible. Learn more at frs.org. or call (800) 795-3272 (voice) or (202) Find more information on both scholarships on www.tnics.com. 720-6382 (TDD). TV Times Your Source for All Things RCTv February 2021 Vol. 5 No. 2 Love February TV Monday, February 1 Monday, February 8 7:00 p.m. The Neighborhood, CBS, 3 9:00 p.m. Black Lightning, Season Premiere, CW, 17 7:30 p.m. Bob Hearts Abishola, CBS,3 8:00 p.m. All Rise, CBS, 3 Tuesday, February 9 9:00 p.m. Bull, CBS, 3 8:00 p.m. This Is Us, NBC, 5 Tuesday, February 2 Wenesday, February 10 7:00 p.m. Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, CBS, 3 7:00 p.m. Tough as Nails, Season Premeire, CBS, 3 8:00 p.m. Fake and Famous, HBO, 500 Saturday, February 13 Wednesday, February 3 12:00 p.m. Love on the Slopes, Hallmark Channel, 7:00 p.m Love, Romance & Chocolate, Hallmark Channel, 83 83 and 383 HD 7:00 p.m Chicago Med, NBC, 5 2:00 p.m. Love, Romance & Chocolate, Hallmark 8:00 p.m. Chicago Fire, NBC, 5 Channel, 83 and 383 HD 8:00 p.m. Super Bowl Greatest Commericials, CBS, 3 4:00 p.m. Snowkissed, Hallmark Channel, 83 8:30 p.m. Call Your Mother, ABC, 9 6:00 p.m. Valentine Match, Hallmark Channel, 83 8:30 p.m. Chicago P.D., NBC, 5 Sunday, February 14 Thursday, February 4 8:00 p.m. American Idol, Season Premiere, ABC, 9 7:00 p.m. Young Sheldon, CBS, 3 7:30 p.m. B Positive, CBS, 3 8:00 p.m. Mom, CBS 3 9:00 p.m. The Unicorn,CBS. Saturday, February 6 9:25 a.m. Tiger, HBO, 500 Sunday, February 7 1:00 p.m. Puppy Bowl, Animal Planet, 116 Tuesday, February 16 7:00 p.m. Young Rock, NBC, 5 5:30 p.m. Kickoff to 7:30 p.m. Kenan, NBC, 5 Super Bowl LV (55), Kansas City Chiefs vs. Tuesday, February 23 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 8:00 p.m Superman & Lois, CW, 17 CBS, 3 Wednesday, February 24 9:00 p.m. Equalizer, CBS, 3 9:00 p.m Snowfall, FX,142 * Days and times are subject to change. TV That People Are Talking About BIG SKY airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on ABC Private detectives Cassie Dewell and Cody Hoyt join forces with his estranged wife and ex-cop, Jenny Hoyt to search for two sisters who have been kipnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. But when they discover that these are not the only girls who disappeared in the area, they must race against the clock to stop the killer before another women is taken. SCHITT’S CREEK (Sitcom) | Prime Video Bridgerton (Romantic, Period Drama) | Netflix A wealthy couple Johnny and Moira find themselves During the Regency era in England, eight closet-knit completely broke with only remaining asset, Schitt’s sibilings of the Bridgerton famiy look for love and Creek, a small town they bought years earlier as a joke. happiness. The Roses, a once-wealthy couple and their two spoiled Inspired by Julia Quinn novels, Bridgerton, had the children, are now having to come to grips with letting go fifth-largest debut in Netflix history. A second of their once pampered life. primevideo.com season was just made official. netflix.com LETTER TO YOU (Documentary) | Apple TV+ WANDAVISION (Sitcom/Superhero/Drama) | Disney+ A tribute to the E-street Band, rock n’ roll, and the way WandaVision, is a blend of classic television sitcom with music shaped Bruce Springsteen’s life, this documentary Marvel Universe when a super-power beings couple living captures reflecting on love and loss while recording idealized the suburban lives, when they suspect that with his full band live in the studio for first time since everything is not what it seems. Born in the U.S.A.